Happiness is a new gun 2

[BirdsThaWord]

Nice lil pistol Colonel! I'd try and remember what you've done for the wife lately and keep doing it! 😁
Pretty cool it came with the target style sight. Don't seem them usually on an Officer. I think the grips look great and the "not perfect" is part of the appeal.

[dao]

I've heard nothing but good about that model Colonel. Great choice, and like Barth I'm looking forward to hearing about your next range trip. You may just find that you will now lean to the Compact/Officer size, over the Commander. That's what happened with me.
Sure looks to me like you did a fine job on the grips. You know I'm partial to G10 but the coloring you put on those antlers is very nice. Speaking of the G10, you can sand the harshness out of them. It doesn't take much, but you want to be sure to wear a mask because apparently the material is not something you want to inhale.
Very nice Gat, enjoy!

edit: Oh, and concering the 9mm. We wouldn't tell a soul.

[kenemoore]

I'm not sure why the Office size has adjustable site, it is listed as the "undercover" model. Seems like it would snag you cover garment.
Do you need any special tools to field strip it. BTW, I consider a paperclip a special tool. Not likely to have one on you, when you really need it.

[jeepster09]

After my mandatory 10 days in Purgatory I was able to bring this home yesterday.

Just dumb luck the wife was with me and in a superior mood or something. Allowed the use of the prohibited CC.
Amazing piece. Adjustable rear sight, checkered front strap. For such fine checkering it's near painful to squeeze. A full 10 ozs lighter than my Cbob, both with empty mags. If memory serves the CBob was 36 and the 1911U is 26.4 or some such thing.

I was also semi suprised the the frame ( I think) is alloy) makes sense since it's so light.

Of course it came with the really nice VZ grips which looked great but really grippy. Grabs your shirt etc. And of course it just screamed for antler.......sooooo. Had the grandkids for the last 4 days. They went home yesterday mid day. So I cut up some antler and got them hung and done today. I'm not totally in love with the looks. I struggle with antler. I got them relatively thin and color dyeing with the Potassium Pomegranate. Didn't seem to work as well as in the past. Maybe not strong enough. Anyhow I don't think I'm done yet but they'll do for now.

Hopefully get someplace and shoot it this week I hope. Hoping it's not too much of a fire breathing dragon. Probably should have got a 9 but I'm a 45 guy and don't want to lose my rep ya know?

She is on to you.....

[kenemoore]

After my mandatory 10 days in Purgatory I was able to bring this home yesterday.

Sweet. Just curious, why would the "undercover" model have adjustable sites, and the other sizes fixed? Do you need a paperclip to field strip it? I am not fond of bull barrels, but others love them. So each to his own. Supposed to have a very nice trigger. I assume you can use any office sized magazine with it. Harrison's sells melanite coated Tripp Research Cobras, it's what I use for carry, plus you get 7 rounds too.



Edit: Never mind about the sites, I just read where they added those to get enough points for importation.

[Barth]

Can't help but show off my custom grips (Again!)

[Bawanna]

I'm not sure why the Office size has adjustable site, it is listed as the "undercover" model. Seems like it would snag you cover garment.
Do you need any special tools to field strip it. BTW, I consider a paperclip a special tool. Not likely to have one on you, when you really need it.

It does take a special tool (provided) or the aforementioned paper clip. It was a bit of a pain as they usually are. I found that the recoil spring was not terribly strong as they usually are and was able to put it back together without the paper clip.
So if all works I guess I don't really need the special tool. As for the sights, they are pretty low profile and can't see them hanging up. I can see them pretty well with thine old eyes too. Hope it shoots.

Dao, I did take the sandpaper to the grips and that did seem to help considerable. I didn't do the mask thing, just tried to hold my breath. I just pretty much finished a set of Bloodwood grips for a K9 (available soon) and I'm still getting over that. It's pretty toxic. I did wear a good mask for most of that. But checkering and find tuning, the mask drives me crazy so it usually gets tossed.

I took the antler back off and put the VZ's back on. Antler just didn't sing. I'm gonna work on them some more. Poor gun, hasn't even fired a round and the grips and bushing have been swapped half a dozen times. I make it up to her.

[Bawanna]

Sweet. Just curious, why would the "undercover" model have adjustable sites, and the other sizes fixed? Do you need a paperclip to field strip it? I am not fond of bull barrels, but others love them. So each to his own. Supposed to have a very nice trigger. I assume you can use any office sized magazine with it. Harrison's sells melanite coated Tripp Research Cobras, it's what I use for carry, plus you get 7 rounds too.



Edit: Never mind about the sites, I just read where they added those to get enough points for importation.

My Wilson officer mags seem to work, one is a little difficult, I'll have to try them to confirm. It does have an incredible trigger. Holding judgement till range time but it's durn near too light. But again I need more bonding time.

[Bawanna]

I took a file, sandpaper and whatever else I could find to work the outside of the antler grips. I gained a bit of thin but not sure it's enough for my taste. I did the dye thing again and then sanded like I normally do. I like the looks better but on the gun it still doesn't sing to me. It's starting to hum a bit. I'm beginning to think, stick with the VZ or I just got a couple pieces of Coco Bolo with a little input from Bird. Might have to whittle some out for the U.

[Bawanna]

Can't help but show off my custom grips (Again!)

Those do look good Barth.